Re: [PATCH] mm: Make it easier to catch NULL cache names

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 22:01 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > > Please don't do BUG_ON() when there are alternatives.
> > > 
> > > In this case, something like
> > > 
> > > 	if (WARN_ON(!name))
> > > 		return NULL;
> > > 
> > > would probably have worked too.
> > 
> > Fair enough..  I'll send a new patch.
> > 
> 
> Actually needs goto err, not return NULL, to appropriately panic when 
> SLAB_PANIC is set.

Rats ! Why is it the trivial ones that are sooo hard :-)

New patch will have to wait til tomorrow, on my way home now.

Cheers,
Ben.


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